Chapter 9 Working with Object-Oriented Models

What is not imported

The following properties are not imported into the new OOM:

Activity

• State & Sub state
  
  
  • Activity history
• Transitions
  
  
  • State

Object state

In Rose, you can associate an Object (instance of a class) with a State.

In an OOM, the Rose Object is imported as an object without symbol. If the Rose Object is associated with a State, an object state with a symbol is created in the OOM and contains the name, stereotype and comment of the State.

If the Rose diagram that contains the symbol of the Object is in a composite activity, PowerDesigner creates a shortcut of the object in the composite activity in the OOM. This happens because an object state cannot be decomposed in an OOM.

Start & End

• Actions
• Transitions
• Swimlanes

Transition

• Transitions between two states
• Event
  
  
  • Send Events
• Arguments
  
  
  • Send Arguments
• Action
  
  
  • Send Target
• Name (in PowerDesigner, the name of the transition is calculated after the source and destination objects names).

Decision

• Swimlanes

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